City life under the microscope, today and tomorrow. American sociologist Richard Sennett, British-Canadian author Doug Saunders and Brussels specialist Véronique Lamquin give their views on (the future of) life in Brussels and elsewhere.

We bring the festival to an end with a look to the future and the – exclusive – presentation of new work by five leading authors: Lize Spit, Lola Lafon, Olga Tokarczuk, Jeroen Olyslaegers and Thomas Gunzig will read from their forthcoming novels.

The international house of literature Passa Porta is a unique, multilingual meeting place. It is where readers meet writers from Belgium and abroad. It is where authors and translators have access to a stage or a workspace. Every two years the Passa Porta Festival celebrates Brussels as a city of literature with the arrival of hundreds of writers and artists.